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Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy - Bright Futures, Dark Pasts (Paperback)
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Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy - Bright Futures, Dark Pasts (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music After 1900
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The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) is an
unmistakeable presence in the British and international new music
scene, both for his immeasurable generosity as prolific composer
for many different types of musicians, major advocate for the works
of others, and performer and conductor who has also been a driving
force behind ensembles; he was also President of the International
Society for Contemporary Music from 1990 to 1996. His vast and
enormously varied output confounds those who seek easy
categorisations: once associated strongly with the 'new
complexity', Finnissy is equally known as composer regularly
engaged with many different folk musics, for working with amateur
and community musicians, for a long-term engagement with sacred
music, or as an advocate of Anglo-American 'experimental' music.
Twenty years ago, a large-scale volume entitled Uncommon Ground:
The Music of Michael Finnissy gave the first major overview of the
output of any 'complex' composer. This new volume brings a greater
plurality of perspectives and critical sensibility to bear upon an
output which is almost twice as large as it was when the earlier
book was published. A range of leading contributors -
musicologists, composers, performers and others - each grapple with
particular questions relating to Finnissy's music, often in ways
which raise questions relating more widely to new music, and
provide theoretical foundations for further of study both of
Finnissy and other composers.
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